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and if discovered playing therein the licensee or the person for the time in charge of the premises shall be liable to a fine of £5 for the first offence, and for a second offence the Council may revoke the license.

(7.) Renewal of license must be applied for before the expiry of the term for which a license has been granted.

(8.) Any Maori youth under the age of fifteen years found playing billiards in any place whatsoever shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 5s. for the first offence, not exceeding 10s. for the second offence, and not exceeding £1 for the third offence or for every subsequent offence.

(9.) Any person keeping a billiard-room or a billiard-table in any Maori kainga, and any Maori keeping such a room or table at any other place within the district, except townships (but not Maori lots within a Native township) and European settlements, without license from the Council, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £25.

(10.) Any person found playing for money, whether by cards or any other game (except by billiards on licensed premises), within the precincts of any kainga shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 10s. for the first offence, not exceeding £1 for the second offence, and not exceeding £2 for every subsequent offence.

(11.) Any person, the owner or occupier of any house or premises situate in any Maori kainga, who shall permit or allow gambling or playing for money (except by billiards on licensed premises) in such house or upon such premises shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £1 for the first offence, not exceeding £2 for the second offence, and not exceeding £5 for every subsequent offence.

(N.) VILLAGE COMMITTEES.

67. The Council may delegate wholly or in part its powers under the prescribed rules or regulations to any Village Committee, and such Committee shall thereupon be enabled to exercise such powers within its own kainga.

The Village Committee shall have power to impose a penalty or a fine for any breach of regulation, and if such fine be not paid within the prescribed period the Chairman of the Committee shall forward a report on and evidence of such breach of regulation and of the non-payment of such fine to the Chairman of the Council.

68. The Council shall prescribe fines for by-laws for which no provision has been made.

SCHEDULE.

Form A.

To [Name and address].

GREETING: You are requested to cleanse or cause your house to be cleansed within days after service of this notice upon you, and you are warned that if after such service you refuse or neglect within the time specified to comply with this notice you will be liable to a fine not exceeding £1. Dated the day of , 19 .

(SEAL.) Chairman [or Clerk] of Ngatiwhatua Council [or Village Committee].

Form B.

HAWKER’S LICENSE.

Know all men that , a hawker, is duly licensed to sell goods in the kaingas of the Ngatiwhatua District for one year from the date hereof.

Given under the seal of the Maori Council for the Ngatiwhatua Maori District, the day of , 19 .

(SEAL.) Chairman [or Clerk] of the Council.

Form C.

BILLIARD LICENSE.

Know all men that , of , is duly licensed to keep a billiard-room at for twelve months from the date hereof, subject to the provisions of the by-laws of the Council.

Given under the seal of the Maori Council for the Ngatiwhatua Maori District, the day of , 19 .

(SEAL.) Chairman [or Clerk] of the Council.

The above by-laws were passed at a meeting of the Maori Council for the Ngatiwhatua Maori District held at Helensville on the 17th day of June, 1921, and are given under the seal of the said Council.

(L.S.) PARAONE KENA, Chairman.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of October, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Native Affairs.

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Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, City of Christchurch.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th February, 1922.

PURSUANT to section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the County of Heathcote, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said county and included in the City of Christchurch.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point in the Opawa River in line with the eastern side of White’s Road; thence southerly to and along that side of road to the south-western corner of Rural Section 256, along the southern and eastern boundaries of that section to the south-western corner of Rural Section 2600, along the southern boundary of that section to Hill’s Road, along the south-western side of Hill’s Road and the north-western side of Station Road to the boundary of Christchurch City; thence north-westerly and southerly along said city boundary to the point of commencement.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Adhesion of Poland and of the Free City of Danzig to the International Conventions of Brussels for the Unification of the Regulations for Collisions, &c.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st February, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has advised that the adhesion of Poland and of the Free City of Danzig to the International Conventions of Brussels for the unification of the regulations for collisions, assistance, and salvage at sea has been notified to the Belgian Government.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Marine.

Adhesion of the Republic of Austria to the International Conventions of Brussels for the Unification of the Regulations for Collisions, &c.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st February, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has advised that the adhesion of the Republic of Austria to the International Conventions of Brussels for the unification of the regulations for collisions, assistance, and salvage at sea has been notified to the Belgian Government.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Marine.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th February, 1922.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP, Under-Secretary.

Kimihia Drainage District, County of Waikato—
George Clinch.
Henry Algar Clinch.
John Thomas Holland.
Robert Waugh.
Frederic Harris.